Delores King-Freeman, (Dee to family),
is a motivated and compelling poet, author, producer and host,
who is using her love, skills and creativity to help readers
enjoy words and rhythmic rhyme.She left the south during the sixties to follow her
dream, which proved extremely elusive.Now, finally catching and living that dream, she happily
immerses herself in her passion-writing.Freeman has previously published well received books of
poetry entitled

Both have been placed in the school system
and libraries around town.She has had a number of poems appear in magazines,
anthologies and new papers where some have been recognized with
awards for their inspirational, even motivational message.

She was presented with a commendation for the
City and City Council during Black History Month in 2005.She continues to provide the Lansing State Journal
with an article, book review or word of inspiration on a monthly
basis.She co-hosts “poetry slams” held at various locations
throughout the Greater Lansing area.

Freeman looks forward to expanding her
Poetree-N-Motion TV program which shares information of
community events, history tidbits, book reviews and has guests
with current community issues.It airs in Lansing on Comcast channel 16 -Thursday @ 3:30PM
and East Lansing channel 30 WELM on Tuesday @ 7:00PM.She is also a talented musical lyricist, hoping to have her
work recorded in the near future.

Presently, Freeman is in the completion stage
of her first fiction novel-a project in conjunction with a movie
producer.This
novel—Wild,
Untamed Michigan: The Way It Was—is
scheduled to hit the stores in early or mid 2006, with the
second of the “Poetry, She Wrote” series—following
close behind.

Freeman thoroughly enjoys writing and sharing
her poetry through presentations at special annual luncheons,
tributes honoring the leadership of community and churches, and
other venues throughout the region.She honestly feels her words will benefit all who read
them-gently touching, softly soothing, delightfully awakening,
enthusiastically illuminating and fervently healing.

As a grandparent of three grandsons, Freeman
sees the need for help within the community.She volunteers for readings and events throughout the
Lansing School District.She
works on projects with the Michigan Million Women Movement that
sprang out of the MWM (Million Women March) of 1997.She’s a member of several supporting organizations,
such as Delores Thornton’s Marguerite Press, Disilgold Soul
and Publishing and Sisterhood of The Written Word. She also
sings with a 35 voice group, who continues to keep the Negro
Spirituals alive-The Earl Nelson Singers-directed by Verna
Holley.

An alumnus of Northwood University of Midland
and former Financial Analyst for General Motors, Freeman
continues to reside in Lansing, Michigan with her husband,
Attorney Myron S. Freeman Sr.She is proud of her three adult children, one of whom has
attained stardom as an actress on Broadway.

In nine grim metaphorical sketches, Bell, the black former Harvard law professor who made headlines recently for his one-man protest against the school's hiring policies, hammers home his controversial theme that white racism is a permanent, indestructible component of our society. Bell's fantasies are often dire and apocalyptic: a new Atlantis rises from the ocean depths, sparking a mass emigration of blacks; white resistance to affirmative action softens following an explosion that kills Harvard's president and all of the school's black professors; intergalactic space invaders promise the U.S. President that they will clean up the environment and deliver tons of gold, but in exchange, the bartering aliens take all African Americans back to their planet. Other pieces deal with black-white romance, a taxi ride through Harlem and job discrimination. Civil rights lawyer Geneva Crenshaw, the heroine of Bell's And We Are Not Saved (1987), is back in some of these ominous allegories, which speak from the depths of anger and despair. Bell now teaches at New York University Law School.—Publishers Weekly /Derrick Bell Dies at 80

Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly

In the 1960s he exhorted students at Columbia University to burn their college to the ground. Today he’s chair of their School of the Arts film division. Jamal Joseph’s personal odyssey—from the streets of Harlem to Riker’s Island and Leavenworth to the halls of Columbia—is as gripping as it is inspiring. Eddie Joseph was a high school honor student, slated to graduate early and begin college. But this was the late 1960s in Bronx’s black ghetto, and fifteen-year-old Eddie was introduced to the tenets of the Black Panther Party, which was just gaining a national foothold. By sixteen, his devotion to the cause landed him in prison on the infamous Rikers Island—charged with conspiracy as one of the Panther 21 in one of the most emblematic criminal cases of the sixties. When exonerated, Eddie—now called Jamal—became the youngest spokesperson and leader of the Panthers’ New York chapter. He joined the “revolutionary underground,” later landing back in prison. Sentenced to more than twelve years in Leavenworth, he earned three degrees there and found a new calling. He is now chair of Columbia University’s School of the Arts film division—the very school he exhorted students to burn down during one of his most famous speeches as a Panther.